Perforated music-sheet.



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PERPORATED MUSIC SHEET. APPLIOATION FILED APR.22, 190s.

Patented July 5, 1910.

Nirnio FRANCIS L. YOUNG", OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO .AEOLIAN COMPANY, OF NEW YGTit-K, N. 'L, A OORPOBATIQN OF GQNNECTIGUT.

PER'EGRATED MUSIC-SHEET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1910.

Application .filed April 22, 1909. Serial No. @1552.

To allwhomit may concern:

- Perforated Music-Sheets,'of which the following is a specification.-

This invention relates to improvements in perforated music sheetssuch as are used in' connection with automatic pneumatic play-.

ing attachments for pianos, etc. l

The object of. my invention is to provide a such a music sheet with indications ,or' marks of instruction, so that the operator may know when to apply and when to release the forte .or "loud pedal, which instructions are 50 applied on the sheet as to permit the operator to follow them with his eye as theyv successivelyappear to View without strain.-.

- ing the eye while at the same time follow A instruction on the sheet.

ing and observing other lines. or marks of In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference'indicate like parts in all of the figures: Figure 1 represents part of a perforated music-sheet provided with a line whichindicates the speed of play:

shall be applied and when the end of such line leaves the tracker board the forte pedal shall be released. So vasto determine precisely when the forte pedal is to be applied a transverse line i is produced at-the forward endof the lines 4.- an'd extends to the line 3. When this line 7 reaches the row of ducts in thetracker the forte pedal is applied.

As shown in Fig. 2 the lines 4: may be composed of dots with greater or less breaks The lines 3 or 5 always indicate some musical efiectflwhich is to be produced by the player or'operator, either in matter of speed or as to the force of the blow delivered or as to a'ccenting and the lines 4 always indicate by their position and len th when the forte pedal is to be applied, 1: e length of time during which this forte pedal is to be maintained in operative posltion and when the same is to be released. By arranging the lines at close to andpractically following the c'onvolutions or configurations of the lines 3 or5, indicating musical efiectsto be pro duced, the player can easily follow the instructions given by the lines 3 and 5 and at on the eye and without being required to observe various partsof the perforated sheet at the same time. ing and also such Indicators showing when (Having. de'scribed'my invention what I Patent is 1. A perforated music sheet provided with an indicating line extending substantially bothlengthwlse and transversely of'the sheet to indicate eflects to be )roduced in playin and additional indepen ent indicating lines closely adjacent to said first mentioned line, said additional lines throughout their respective lengths being substantially parallel with said first mentioned line and said additional lines following each other successively, at greater or less intervals, along said first mentioned line and said additional lines servin to indicate musical efiects difi'ering from t ose indicated by said first mentioned line substantially as set forth.

2. Aperforated music sheet provided with an indicatin line 'eirten'din substantially lengthwise o the sheet and a so transversely to the sheet, additional indicating lines ad- Signed at New York city, in the county of jacent to andsubstantia'lly parallel with the New York and State of New York this 20 first mentioned indicating line and a transday of April A. D. 1909.

verse line at the beginning of each additional FRANCIS L. YOUNG. 5 indicating line said transverse line extending IVltIlGSSGSZ to the first mentioned indicating line, sub- B. M. STULZ,

stantially as set forth. V OSCAR S. GUNZ. 

